Byrd Baylor lives and writes in Arizona, presenting images of the Southwest and an intense connection between the land and the people. Her prose illustrates vividly the value of simplicity, the natural world, and the balance of life within it.

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What might in other hands be trite and predictable becomes a heroic journey here--told realistically from the dog's point of view, with creature comforts paramount but human affection mighty important.